JEDDAH, 8 June 2008 — Rotana Audio Visual owned by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, was awarded Best Media Company by Arabian Business (ITP) during the Arabian Business Saudi Achievement Awards 2008 that was held at the Four Seasons Hotel on May 25.
The event was attended by 18 other Saudi companies, besides Nezar Nagro, president Rotana Media Services, and Salim Alhindi, president of Rotana Audio, and Walid Al-Akawi, CEO of Arabian Business (ITP). Rotana was launched in 2003 and expanded at a very fast pace. The company has now become the largest producer of Arabic music in the world and one of the largest producers of film, broadcaster of premium TV programs and entertainment channels.
Rotana includes a bouquet of seven free-to-air TV channels and broadcasts the most up-to-date Arabic music and music videos to the highest aesthetic quality to its audience around the world. Moreover, Rotana broadcasts to other continents outside the MENA region through other channels of distribution that include DTH, Online, IPTV, Mobile and New Media.
The Rotana group has its own magazine, café chain and known as the only TV company to produce and also air its programs on its own channels, in addition to producing and distributing its own CDs and music in digital format worldwide.
The company’s headquarters are in Riyadh with branches in Jeddah, Beirut, Cairo, Kuwait and Dubai.